old school ATS

The latest from Deep Roots Dance and student troupe Nomaditude at the final Cues & Tattoos, April 2018. Don’t miss our performances and workshops at World Rhythm Festival, Saturday and Sunday, April 28th and 29th at the Seattle Center Armory, … Read More

Deep Roots Dance was thrilled to be invited to perform and teach dance workshops again at World Rhythm Festival again this year. It’s a really wonderful festival, and all events are completely donated by the artists, making it completely free! … Read More

Host Shay Hosting a workshop sure sounds intimidating, but really it’s not as hard as you might imagine! Everything possible is done to make it easy for you, the host, to make your event a success. Contracts are scary, right? … Read More

Join us to learn a dance of joy, power, strength, and self-expression – Tribal Bellydance! Deep Roots Dance offers weekly classes in ATS®-based tribal and fusion bellydance at their studio, Studio Deep Roots in Seattle, as well as specialty topics … Read More

I teach costuming workshops now and again, specifically for tribal and fusion bellydancers. I used to be a professional costumer, so I have spent quite a lot of time considering all the elements that go into this style–what makes it … Read More

The videos have been pouring in from Tribal Fest 2014. As usual, they run the gamut of tribal interpretations. A real standout for me was UJBABA from Russia. I have enjoyed their videos many times before, and this one is … Read More

I am loving that Habibi has been digitizing their articles and putting them in an online archive. THANK YOU! Here is snippets from a gem from 1999, a history of American Tribal Style written by Kajira Djoumahna of BlackSheep Bellydance: … Read More

At about 5pm this evening, Carolena has officially expanded her definition of ATS. Here is the latter portion of her announcement this evening. I would love to hear what you think. “There is still some confusion about what is ATS … Read More

Gotta love it: “There are very few rules in Tribal Fusion, but in my humble opinion the one constant is that the dancer or group is versed in American Tribal Style as taught by Carolena Nericcio. Her stylistic approach to … Read More

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Before finding Deep Roots, I tried belly dancing with a few different teachers and studios. My first experience in belly dancing left me mostly uninspired to move forward with the art form. A few years later I decided to pick it up again and while that teacher was a beautiful dancer, she didn’t actually give instruction on how you could become a beautiful dancer. Staring at yourself in a mirror…
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Fullerene B.

Great class, awesome instructor. Very fun. I am thinking about making this my ‘go to’ exercise class! Nothing is better than having fun while you are working it out!
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G.M.
- Seattle, WA (LivingSocial)

Sharon’s Awesomeness. I’m the type of person who gets frustrated with something i’m not good at right away and takes practice to get better at……and bellydance happens to fall into both of these categories for me! With that said, it’s been almost 3 years since i started studying with Sharon 🙂
Coming to Sharon as a baby dancer (from out of state,…
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Akire
- Seattle, WA (TeachStreet)

Many of us attended your workshop, and took more than dance technique away. Your open and inviting attitude towards dance has become an essential part of our philosophy of dance. It is a wonderful gift that we will never be able to thank you enough.
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AJ
- Winnipeg, Manitoba

hawesome! i’d taken a year of traditional bellydance before moving to seattle & wanted to start up again but i had no idea what this “tribal” business was all about. i didn’t want to be involved in drum circles or touching someone’s 3rd eye or anything else.
i have to admit, i chose shay’s class purely on time & location but boy howdy, am…
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